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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns
We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
SIGGRAPH
1994
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Spreadsheets for images
We describe a data visualization system based on spreadsheets. Cells in our spreadsheet contain graphical objects such as images, volumes, or movies. Cells may also contain widget...
Marc Levoy
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Retrieval effectiveness of an ontology-based model for information selection
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of nontextual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential for...
Latifur Khan, Dennis McLeod, Eduard H. Hovy
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp